"This lobbying campaign is a very smart investment for them."
Even if he does not, his campaign may turn out to have been a smart investment.
The answer appears to be yes, with enough capital and some smart investments in technology.
It would be a smart investment, he'd tell them, for the children they didn't yet have.
Early learning is one of the smartest public investments that we can make.
"She made several smart investments of her own," he added.
Giving them an office to be more productive is a smart investment.
The smartest investment we ever made, she said to herself.
Science is usually a smart investment for a nation's future, and it is more important today than ever before.
It wouldn't be a smart investment to go out and embarrass himself.